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EITHER RIGHTLY OR LIKE A CROOK: LEGAL CULTURE OF POLISH SOCIETY AFTER COMMUNISM

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Kurczewski J.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2007

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nr 2(185)

33-60

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The paper presents the results of research projects conducted by the Chair of Sociology of Custom and Law, of the Warsaw University Institute of Applied Social Sciences, on the chosen components of the Third Republic of Poland's legal culture. The popular legal culture is distinguished here from the professional one. The latter is not a subject of this paper, although its direct points of junction are indicated: lawmakers, social origin and environment of lawyers and the participation of nonlawyers in the administration of justice. All of them make treating the legal culture as an autonomous entity hardly possible. General legal attitudes are discussed with reference to the 1964 pioneer studies of Adam Podgórecki, and the patterns and practices of dispute resolution. The instrumental treatment of law by political elites is debated; those who use the law as an instrument of political struggle and the political advantage for those who pass the laws. Finally, five general conclusions are drawn. According to the most important one, in the Polish culture the most common is the interest in claiming 'one's own' right by using both legal and illegal means to obtain it, which is linked to the toleration of similar behavior of others. The latter occurs if such a behavior does not interfere with the fulfillment of one's own aims.

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Továrna na právo. Otázka politické reprezentace v polské Třetí republice

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Kurczewski J.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2005

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tom 41

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nr 4

583-600

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This article can be described as a legal-sociological take on the constitutional norm that defines the character of political representation in democratic Poland. Although this norm refers to the purely representative character of democracy, it differs from the expectations of society, which regards elected representatives as dependent on the will of the electorate even beyond election day. Research shows that elected representatives have very varied opinions on their role. When they consider the voting prerogatives of national minorities or the quota representation of women, it is sociographic representation that they have in mind. As for the representation of opinion, they agree on some points and differ over others, recognising the latitude of their mandate, supporting referenda, but also limiting their legal significance. They also describe the subject of representation and the nature of the ties it is based on in different ways. Some feel themselves entirely dependent on society, while others aim to express the interests of only certain segments of society. This leads to the claim that such variability in conceptions and interpretations is the strength of representation. Sociologists in general, and sociologists of law in particular, must bear this fact in mind when interpreting the process that takes place within the great legislative factory.

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Wyniki badań i analiza wybranych parametrów techniczno-eksploatacyjnych kombajnów zbożowych oraz środków transportowych w trakcie kampanii żniwnej

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Kurczewski J. , Szelinski T. , Waszkiewicz C.

Roczniki Nauk Rolniczych. Seria C:Technika Rolnicza

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1986

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tom 76

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nr 4

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MARIA OSSOWSKA - AN INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR

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Kicinski K. , Neyman E. , Kurczewski J. , Nowicka E. , Tokarska-Bakir J.

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2005

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nr 38

15-180

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In the present issue of 'Etyka' the proceedings of the conference held in December 2004 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Maria Ossowska's death are published. It contains the authors papers that were presented as well as short opinions and views of the panel discussants. At the time she begun her academic career Maria Ossowska had to overcome significant difficulties to win recognition in a men's world. It was a time when women started to succeed also in the field of science. On entering this man-dominated world M. Ossowska did not give up her gender. A talented scholar, she always stressed that she was not merely an ethicists but an investigator of morals. Maria Ossowska had the rare ability to reconcile personal sensitivity to human problems, and so to moral phenomena, with a stance of a researcher who analyzes them thoroughly. She did that with admirable independency. It is a difficult and rare ability which in authors' opinion is particularly important now, especially in Poland, where independent thought about morals is almost disappearing. This is a legacy which warrants Maria Ossowska a special place in Polish science.